Abstract: The wind turbine blade (1) includes a structure made of a fibre reinforced polymer material including a polymer matrix and fibre reinforcement material embedded in the polymer matrix. The fibre reinforcement material includes carbon fibres that have been produced by carbonisation of a precursor to a carbonisation degree of 60% to 80%.

Abstract: A fan blade includes first and second titanium portions that are secured to one another with an aluminum alloy braze. A method of manufacturing a fan blade includes providing first and second titanium portions, applying an aluminum alloy braze to at least one of the first and second titanium portions, and heating the fan blade to melt the aluminum alloy braze and join the first and second portions to one another to provide a fan blade with an airfoil exterior contour.

Abstract: A torque converter impeller is provided. The torque converter impeller includes an impeller shell and an impeller hub. The impeller shell and impeller hub are autogenously welded together such that the weld has a concave shape. A method of forming a torque converter impeller is also provided.

Abstract: A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine includes a leading edge tip rib projecting outwardly from an airfoil of the blade at a tip region thereof. The tip rib continuously surrounds a leading edge of the airfoil and extends rearwardly from the leading edge along respective pressure and suction side surfaces to thereby alter the blade tip leakage vortex structure and strength, resulting in a stage efficiency benefit.

Abstract: Methods for repairing a turbine airfoil constructed from a CMC material are provided via filling a cavity located in the turbine airfoil with a ceramic paste (e.g., including a ceramic powder and a binder), heating the ceramic paste in the cavity to remove the binder, thereby forming a porous ceramic material, and adding a molten ceramic material to the porous ceramic material. The cavity can be defined in an airfoil of the turbine airfoil (e.g., on a tip or cap of the airfoil). Intermediates formed during the repair of a turbine airfoil are also provided. The intermediate can generally include an airfoil comprising a CMC material, a cavity defined in the airfoil, and a porous ceramic material filling the cavity.

Abstract: An impeller for increasing the pressure of a fluid circulating in an annular fluid path, the impeller comprising: a plurality of centrifugal compressor vanes circumferentially interspaced around the axis of the annular fluid path, the plurality of compressor vanes extending from an axially-oriented inlet to a radially-oriented outlet, and each having an inner edge and a free edge, the free edge of the plurality of compressor vanes coinciding with an outer limit of the annular fluid path, and a hub having a solid-of-revolution shape centered around an axis, the hub having an outer hub surface forming an inner limit to the annular fluid path and to which the inner edge of the plurality of centrifugal vanes is secured, the outer hub surface having a portion which leans forward, forming an axial recess therein.

Abstract: A method for controlling a hydrostatic drive unit of a work vehicle is disclosed. The method may generally include determining a reference swashplate position of a hydraulic pump of the hydrostatic drive unit, wherein the reference swashplate position is associated with an uncompensated current command, and determining an actual swashplate position of the hydraulic pump, wherein the actual swashplate position differs from the reference swashplate position due to a loading condition of the work vehicle. In addition, the method may include determining a closed-loop current command based at least in part on the actual and reference swashplate positions and generating a modified current command based on at least one of the uncompensated current command or the closed-loop current command.

Abstract: An electric pump may comprise a pump portion including an impeller, a motor portion configured to activate the pump portion, and a housing configured to contain the pump portion and the motor portion. The motor portion may comprise a rotor configured to activate the impeller, a stator configured to rotate the rotor, a control circuit configured to control a rotation of the rotor, a resin portion configured to cover the stator, and a heat transferring portion contacting the control circuit and the housing, thermal conductivity of the heat transferring portion being higher than thermal conductivity of the resin portion.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump system having an impeller rotating with first and second magnetic structures on opposite surfaces. A levitation magnetic structure is disposed at a first end of a pump housing having a levitating magnetic field for axially attracting the first magnetic structure. A multiphase magnetic stator at a second end of the pump housing generates a rotating magnetic field for axially and rotationally attracting the second magnetic structure. A commutator circuit provides a plurality of phase voltages to the stator. A sensing circuit determines respective phase currents. A controller calculates successive commanded values for the phase voltages during a running state in response to a desired impeller speed and an actual impeller phase. The controller has a startup interval during which the commanded values of the phase voltages are determined in response to a pseudo impeller phase and in response to a ramping gain factor.

Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of positive displacement pumps utilizing pressure compensating calibration, as well as related systems and methods, are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a method of operating a positive displacement pump includes sensing, with a pressure sensor disposed at a fluid outlet of the positive displacement pump, a back pressure at the fluid outlet, transmitting a pressure signal associated with the sensed back pressure from the pressure sensor to a controller of the positive displacement pump, and identifying, on the controller, a volume of fluid pumped by the positive displacement pump using the pressure signal.

Abstract: Auxiliary power units and methods and systems for activation and deactivation of a load compressor therein are provided. Auxiliary power unit includes the load compressor having an impeller, APU engine, coupling member, pre-spinning means, and APU controller. APU engine is adapted to be mechanically engaged to load compressor to drive load compressor to provide pneumatic power and to be disengaged when the need for pneumatic power ceases. Coupling member couples load compressor and APU engine and is configured to be controllably moved between an engaged position in which the APU engine is mechanically engaged with the load compressor, and a disengaged position, in which the APU engine is disengaged from the load compressor. APU controller is operably coupled to load compressor, APU engine, coupling member, and pre-spinning means and adapted to receive and be responsive to rotational speed signals for controlling movement of coupling member between engaged and disengaged positions.

Abstract: The invention provides a high pressure water injection pump system, comprising at least two water injection pump units connected in series, each pump unit comprising a motor in a motor compartment operatively connected to drive a pump in a pump compartment, distinctive in that at least the pump units following the first pump comprises a choke compartment arranged between the pump and motor compartments, a leakage seal arranged between the pump and choke compartment, the choke compartment having an outlet; and the motor compartment of at least the pump units following the first pump unit is dimensioned according to a lower pressure class than the operatively connected pump compartment.

Abstract: In an embodiment of the present invention a pump (100) is disclosed which comprises a head (110), in which at least a cylinder is fashioned in which a piston (105) is slidably housed, and a casing (145) fixed to the head (110), which defines an internal volume in which a crankshaft (150) and at least a conrod (155) are housed, which at least a conrod (155) connects the crankshaft (150) with the piston (105), such as to be able to transform a rotary motion of the crankshaft (150) into an alternating motion of the piston (105), signaling means (210) of the temperature of lubricating oil contained in the internal volume of the casing (145) being applied to the casing (145).

Abstract: A system may be operable to circulate a working fluid between first and second heat exchangers. The system may include a suction line, a low-side compressor, a high-side compressor and a discharge line. The low-side and high-side compressors may both be in fluid communication with the suction and discharge lines.

Abstract: A submersible pump includes a fluid-end section, a power-end section, a top connection sub and an umbilical. The fluid-end section includes a tubular fluid-end barrel, an upper piston disposed within the fluid-end barrel bore, and a traveling valve disposed at the upper piston upper end. The power-end section includes a tubular hydraulic cylinder. A lower piston disposed within the hydraulic cylinder bore is connected to the upper piston. The top connection sub connected to the fluid-end barrel upper end has a discharge port and a standing valve disposed below the discharge port. The umbilical includes first and second tubing strings providing fluid communications between a prime mover and the hydraulic cylinder bore below and above the lower piston face, respectively. A third tubing string provides fluid communications between a wellhead and the top connection sub discharge port.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compressor leaf springs, in particular, linear compressor leaf springs; the leaf springs comprising at least one spacer (3) disposed between at least a pair of flat springs (2), each flat spring (2) being comprised by at least one outer ring (21), at least one inner ring (22) and at least one connection extension (23) which connects an outer rim (21) to an inner ring (22); According to the present invention, it is defined at least one section of physical contact between at least a pair of outer rims (21) defined by at least one spacer (3), at least one section of physical contact between at least a pair of inner rims (22) defined by at least one spacer (3), and at least one free section of physical contact between at least two connection extensions (23) adjacently arranged.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling circuit pump for a motor vehicle, having a stator which is arranged in a motor housing (14) and in which a rotatably mounted rotor is received. It is proposed that the stator (12) is received in the motor housing (14) in a positively locking manner.

Abstract: A cryogenic hydraulic reciprocating piston pump includes a casing which defines a piston chamber. The sidewall of the piston chamber includes a retraction spill port as well as a pumping spill port. At the end of a retraction stroke, a retraction spill passageway that extends through the piston becomes aligned with the retraction spill port and fluid is communicated from the pressurized side of the piston to the unpressurized side of the piston to stop the retraction stroke before the piston “bottoms out”. Similarly, at the end of a pumping stroke, a pumping spill passageway that extends through the piston becomes aligned with the pumping spill port which provides communication between the pressurized side of the piston and the unpressurized side of the piston thereby stopping movement of the piston before it “bottoms out”.

Abstract: In order to provide a motor rotor in which a permanent magnet is prevented from corroding, wherein a motor rotor for use in a motor for driving a pump rotor rotating shaft of a vacuum pump is provided which comprises a rotor core made up of a plurality of steel plates which are laminated in an axial direction and having a through hole, a permanent magnet which is disposed in the through hole, and end plates which are attached individually to axial end portions of the rotor core, wherein an adhesive is applied to a whole surface of each of the plurality of steel plates, and the plurality of steel plates are surface joined to each other and to the end plates via the adhesive.

Abstract: An electric fluid pump includes: a case including a recess portion into which a fluid flows; a rotor arranged in the recess portion; an axial member supporting the rotor; and a flange member insert-molded with the case and the axial member, secured to an end portion of the axial member, and buried in a bottom wall portion of the recess portion, wherein the flange member includes: a first flange portion; a reduced portion closer to an inner surface of the bottom wall portion than the first flange portion, and smaller than the first flange portion in a radial direction; and a second flange portion closer to the inner surface than the reduced portion, larger than the first flange portion in the radial direction, and partially exposed from the inner surface, and the inner surface is flat.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a linear engine for compressor, and to a compressor provided with a linear engine. The linear engine for compressor comprises at least a stator consisting of a first core (2) and a second core (3), and at least a cursor (4), wherein said first core (2), cursor (4) and second core (3) are concentrically disposed. Said first core (2) is substantially defined by at least two different bodies (21, 22) and provides attaching means (6, 7) between said two bodies (21, 22).

Abstract: An electric oil pump is coupled to a pump receptacle including an oil inflow passage and an oil outflow passage. The electric oil pump includes a motor, a pump rotor, a housing, and a check valve. The housing accommodates the motor and the pump rotor. The housing closes an opening of the pump receptacle and includes at least a fitted portion fitted into the pump receptacle. An oil compartment is formed between the pump receptacle and the housing. Oil flows into the oil compartment from the oil inflow passage when the pump rotor is rotated. The fitted portion is partially immersed in the oil collected in the oil compartment. The housing includes a suction port and a discharge port. A check valve, located in the housing, limits reversed flow of the oil from the oil compartment to the oil inflow passage.

Abstract: Disclosed is an oil-pumping machine, which is characterized in that it is composed of a secondary sheave (5) of a wheel-cylinder type driven by an electric motor.

Abstract: A motor for a compressor, and a reciprocating compressor having the same, are provided. A winding coil may be formed by removing a bobbin from the winding coil, and then coating an insulating material on an outer circumferential surface of the winding coil, to allow heat and moisture generated by the winding coil to be emitted to outside and provide enhanced performance and reliability. As a bobbin is removed from the winding coil, a coil line may be wound on the removed portion of the bobbin to enhance an occupation ratio by the coil line on the same area, and thus enhance efficiency of the motor. An elastic member or an adhesive may be inserted or applied into a space between the winding coil and a coil insertion groove of an inner stator to minimize vibrations of a coil line. The insulating material, which is in the form of powder, may melt while the coil line is adhered as the self-bonding material melts, forming a coating layer.

Abstract: Fan assemblies, and in particular fan wheels and stator assemblies for fan assemblies, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the fan wheel includes a wheel back having an outer surface forming one of a curved dome-shape and a truncated cone-shape. The fan wheel may also include a plurality of fan blades radially spaced about and mounted to the outer surface of the wheel back. In one embodiment, each of the fan blades is formed from a segment of an airfoil-shaped aluminum extrusion defining at least one internal cavity. The fan blade first ends can be provided with a compound cut profile with at least one curved cut such that the first end of the blade is mounted flush to the wheel back outer surface. The stator assembly can also be provided with a plurality of stator blades formed from airfoil-shaped aluminum extrusion segments and provided with compound cut profiles.

Abstract: A pumping device, particularly for a domestic water supply, to be installed in a hydraulic system and comprising: a centrifugal electric pump, which has two intake connectors arranged along perpendicular directions and to be connected selectively to the hydraulic system, a tank for the supply liquid, which has a substantially cylindrical shape and is fixed to the centrifugal electric pump with an axis of symmetry that is substantially parallel to the axis of the pump, a manifold, provided with a one-way valve, intended to distribute the supply liquid to the tank and to one of two delivery connectors that are oriented along perpendicular directions and are to be connected selectively or simultaneously to the hydraulic system. The intake connectors and the delivery connectors are mutually close in a single portion of the pumping device, substantially a portion for connection to the hydraulic system.

Abstract: A simplified inflation valve includes a base forming centrally a bore. The bore has a bottom to which a PU membrane is attached. The membrane includes at least one aperture in a location outboard the bore. An outer circumference of the membrane is fixed to the base through ultrasonic technique or die pressing. A squeezer is mounted on the base and has elasticity for elastically resuming shape after being pressed and has an interior space forming an air chamber. The air chamber has a top forming at least one through hole. The squeezer has a bottom including an outer circumferential portion forming a sealing rim, which is fixed, through ultrasonic technique or die pressing, to the base so as to form an inflation valve. The inflation valve can be connected to an air bladder, whereby through pressing the inflation valve, the air bladder can be inflated.

Abstract: A peristaltic pump comprises a tube to transport a material in a transport direction and a conveying screw, which is configured to cause a transport of the material by causing a successive squeezing of the tube along the transport direction.

Abstract: An electromagnetic body has a movable core reciprocatably movable within a movable core chamber. The movable core has through holes and a fitting hole that pass through the movable core in a direction of movement of the movable core. A stator core facing the movable core defines the movable core chamber together with the electromagnetic body. A valve stem is fixed into the fitting hole and has a fluid chamber recessed from a first end surface facing the stator core. Air bubbles generated in a gap can be guided into the fluid chamber and collapse by flow of the fuel flowing into the fluid chamber from the through holes through the gap.

Abstract: A swash plate type compressor includes a drive shaft, a swash plate, a piston, a cylinder block, a housing, a cylinder bore, a compression chamber, suction and discharge chambers and first and second thrust bearings. The cylinder bore is formed in the cylinder block and receiving therein the piston engaged with the swash plate mounted on the drive shaft. The compression chamber is defined in the cylinder bore by the piston so as to be communicable with the suction and the discharge chambers formed in the housing. The first and the second thrust bearings are disposed on opposite sides of the swash plate. The drive shaft extends through the cylinder block and supported in a thrust direction by the first and the second thrust bearings, and either one of the first and the second thrust bearings is disposed outside the cylinder block and between the housing and the drive shaft.

Abstract: A method of operating a refrigeration system, that includes providing a plurality of compressors connected in parallel. The plurality of compressors includes a plurality of scroll compressors. The method further includes returning circulated refrigerant to the plurality of compressors, the circulated refrigerant having oil entrained therein. Returning circulated refrigerant to the plurality of compressors includes returning more oil to one of the plurality of compressors than to another of the plurality of compressors. The method also includes supplying oil from one of the plurality of compressors to at least one other of the plurality of compressors. Supplying oil from one of the plurality of compressors includes supplying oil from the one of the plurality of compressors having an opening in its housing. A fitting is assembled into the opening. The fitting protrudes through the housing into an interior portion of the housing.

Abstract: A vane pump (1) includes: a front side vane case (40), a rear side vane case (50), a pump housing (60), a pump cover (70), a drive shaft (30), a rotationally driven rotor (10), and vanes (20) provided in slot sections (13), wherein engaging groove sections and guide protrusions (46, 52), which engaging one another, are provided in the vanes (20), the front side vane case (40) and the rear side vane case (50), the engaging groove sections and guide protrusions (46, 52) are composed in such a manner that the vanes (20) move following a proximal inner peripheral surface (42b) in a state where the vane is proximate to the proximal inner peripheral surface (42b), in accordance with rotation of the rotor (10), and pump chambers are demarcated by the vanes (20) situated in proximity with the proximal inner peripheral surface (42b).

Abstract: A rotary-vane vacuum pump comprises a stator and a vaned rotor, the stator partly defining an outlet chamber and including an outlet passage opening to the outlet chamber. The rotor is rotatably sealed to the stator; it has a sealing area to block the outlet passage, and, an unsealing area alignable with the outlet passage by rotation of the rotor to periodically unblock the outlet passage. The disclosed pump offers reduced resistance to lubricant oil discharge from the outlet passage, which results in lower differential pressure between inlet and outlet chambers at the end of the pumping cycle.

Abstract: There are provided a rare-earth permanent magnet and a manufacturing method of the rare-earth permanent magnet with improved magnetic performance which is achieved through milling-ability-improved fine wet-milling step. In the method, coarsely milled magnet material is finely wet-milled in an organic solvent together with an organometallic compound expressed with a structural formula of M-(OR)x (M including at least one of Nd, Al, Cu, Ag, Dy, Tb, V, Mo, Zr, Ta, Ti, W, and Nb, R representing a substituent group consisting of a straight-chain or branched-chain hydrocarbon with carbon chain length of 2-16, and x representing an arbitrary integer) to obtain magnet powder and to make the organometallic compound adhere to particle surfaces of the magnet powder. Subsequently, the magnet powder having adhesion of the organometallic compound to particle surfaces thereof is formed into a formed body and sintered so as to obtain a permanent magnet 1.

Abstract: There are provided a permanent magnet and a manufacturing method thereof enabling, even when wet milling is employed, carbon content contained in magnet particles to be reduced in advance before sintering, and also enabling the entirety of the magnet to be densely sintered without causing a gap between a main phase and a grain boundary phase in the sintered magnet. Coarsely-milled magnet powder is further milled by a bead mill in an organic solvent. Thereafter, the magnet powder is compacted to produce a formed body. Hydrogen calcination process is performed through holding the formed body for several hours in hydrogen atmosphere at a pressure higher than normal atmospheric pressure at 200 through 900 degrees Celsius. Thereafter, through sintering process, a permanent magnet 1 is manufactured.

Abstract: Provided is a ferritic stainless steel excellent in terms of thermal fatigue resistance, high-temperature fatigue resistance and oxidation resistance without adding Mo or W, which is an expensive chemical element and with controlling Nb content to be as small as possible. The chemical composition contains, by mass %, C: 0.020% or less, Si: 3.0% or less, Mn: 3.0% or less, P: 0.040% or less, S: 0.030% or less, Cr: 10% to 25%, N: 0.020% or less, Nb: 0.005% to 0.15%, Al: 0.20% to 3.0%, Ti: 5×(C %+N %) to 0.5%, Mo: 0.1% or less, W: 0.1% or less, Cu: 0.55% to 2.0%, B: 0.0002% to 0.0050%, Ni: 0.05% to 1.0%, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, where C % and N % in the expression 5×(C %+N %) respectively represent the contents (mass %) of the chemical elements C and N.

Abstract: An alloy for golf club heads includes 3.0-5.5 wt % of silicon, 8.0-10.5 wt % of manganese, 14.5-17.0 wt % of chromium, 3.5-6.0 wt % of nickel, the rest being iron and inevitable impurities.

Abstract: A high-strength cold-rolled steel sheet excellent in ductility, work hardenability, and stretch flangeability, and having tensile strength of 780 MPa or more includes: a chemical composition containing, in mass percent, C: more than 0.020% to less than 0.30%, Si: more than 0.10% to 3.00% or less, Mn: more than 1.00% to 3.50% or less; and metallurgical structure whose main phase is a low-temperature transformation product, and whose secondary phase contains retained austenite. The retained austenite has a volume fraction relative to overall structure of more than 4.0% to less than 25.0% and an average grain size of less than 0.80 ?m, and of the retained austenite, the number density of retained austenite grains whose grain size is 1.2 ?m or more is 3.0×10?2 grains/?m2 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed is a steel sheet in which the amounts of respective elements in chemical components, which are represented by mass %, satisfy the following Expression 1 and Expression 2. In addition, the steel contains Ti-included-carbonitrides as inclusions, and the number density of the Ti-included-carbonitrides having a long side of 5 ?m or more is 3 pieces/mm2 or less. 0.3?{Ca/40.88+(REM/140)/2}/(S/32.07)??(Expression 1) Ca?0.005?0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nickel alloy derived from René 125, but with reduced levels of certain elements (Zr, B, P, S, Si and, to a lesser extent, Ti and Hf) in order to limit the appearance of cracks upon solidification in a moulding process. Specifically, 4.80%?Al?5.00%, 1.48%?Hf?1.52%, 2.28%?Ti?2.33%, 0.005%?B?0.01%, 1.77%?Mo?1.97%, and Zr?0.007%. Other elements can have levels that match those of René 125.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a particle-containing powdered coating material in a coating method selected from the group consisting of cold gas spraying, flame spraying, high-speed flame spraying, thermal plasma spraying and non-thermal plasma spraying, wherein the particles have a relative deformability factor Vm of at most 0.1 and the relative deformability factor is defined according to Formula (I): V m = d D 50 , ( I ) wherein d is the average smallest thickness of the particles, measured vertical to and in the middle half of the longitudinal axis of the particles, and D50 is the average diameter of the volume-averaged particle-size distribution. The invention furthermore relates to a method for coating.

Abstract: A ceramic casting vessel (92) including an insert (94) extending between a shell (91) and a core (93) of the vessel to define a cooling channel of an alloy component cast therein. The insert may include a portion (96) running generally parallel to a surface of the shell to define a cooling channel running generally parallel to a surface of the component. Ends of the insert may be disposed in respective grooves (95, 97) formed in the shell and/or core.

Abstract: A new corrosion inhibitor composition containing a carboxylic acid and its water soluble salts with zinc can be used for corrosion inhibition on the carbon steel pipe and heat exchangers in industrial cooling water. This new composition of matter contains less carboxylic acid and Zn2+ than previous formulations and still have >90% corrosion inhibition. It is disclosed that the synergistic effect of combining the carboxylic acid with very small amounts of Zn results in a product with good corrosion inhibition properties that is more environmentally friendly than the current common phosphonate corrosion inhibitors; particularly for use in cooling water applications.

Abstract: Elimination and/or mitigation of fouling in a vapor transport systems, such as vent lines and scrubber feed lines may be accomplished using an antifouling additive. The method for employing the antifouling additive includes introducing into the vapor transport system an additive including a polar solvent and corrosion inhibitor wherein: the vapor transport system is substantially water free; the vapor transport system is used to transport acidic materials; the additive is a liquid at vapor transport system operating conditions; and the additive is stable at the vapor transport system operating conditions.

Abstract: A mobile body is configured to travel over a surface inside an aircraft cabin. A source of UV radiation is mounted to the mobile body and configured to direct UV radiation to the surface at a predetermined dosage. At least two articulated arms are mounted to the mobile body, and UV lamps mounted respectively on the arms. The mobile body is a trolley or cart for negotiating an aircraft aisle.

Abstract: A disinfectant system for intracavity ultrasound probes in disclosed generally including a housing, a disinfectant chamber positioned in the housing and receiving at least one ultrasound probe, a container for containing a disinfectant solution fluidly coupled to the disinfectant chamber, at least one pump for supplying the disinfection solution from the container to the disinfection chamber and from the disinfection chamber to the container, and a controller for automated operation of the disinfectant system, wherein the disinfectant solution is a multi-use disinfectant solution. A method for disinfecting intracavity ultrasound probes is also disclosed generally including placing at least one ultrasound probe into a disinfectant chamber, supplying a disinfectant solution from a container to the disinfectant chamber via a pump, and returning the solution to the container via the pump, wherein the steps of supplying and returning the disinfectant solution are controlled by a controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a blood line (108) comprising an infusion site (145) intended to inject into the line a solution, comprising: a first main channel (200) having a first passage section, a second main channel (220) having a second passage section, means for the formation (210) of a turbulence area located downstream from the first main channel, located upstream from the second main channel, these formation means comprising a first fluid passage means (224) defining a reduction (225) in the passage section and whose smallest passage section is smaller than the first passage section and smaller than the second fluid passage section, a secondary channel (230) comprising an inlet (231) for letting in the solution and an outlet (232) in fluid communication with the first main channel or the means for the formation of a turbulence area or the second main channel.

Abstract: A filter and a method to treat blood borne carcinomas by inducing apoptosis in carcinoma cells. The filter includes a stent having an interior wall defining a channel containing a packing material and at least one antineoplastic agent. The method includes placing a patient's blood in apposition of the antineoplastic agent by pumping the blood through the stent. The blood remains in apposition to the antineoplastic agent for a sufficient time period to induce an apoptotic cascade.

Abstract: An automatic analysis device has a light scattering photometer incorporated therein, and improved accuracy resulting from reducing the influences from external light. The automatic analysis device includes a scattered light measurement unit disposed inside the main-body casing, and openable/closable protective covers to cover the top face of the main-body casing. A first protective cover at the center includes a light-shielding part to block external light. The protective covers include see-through parts enabling viewing of the inside. The light-shielding part is configured to cover an area of the reaction disk at least corresponding to the area above the scattered light measurement unit, thus reducing external light leaking into the scattered light measurement unit, and thus removing influences from external light on the scattered light measurement. The protective cover may have a divided structure.

Abstract: An automated sample processing system having a sample input adapted to simultaneously receive a number of sample containers, a reagent input adapted to receive one or more new reagent supplies, a consumable input adapted to receive one or more new consumable supplies, a solid waste output adapted to receive used consumable supplies, a liquid waste output adapted to receive one or more used reagent supplies, and a processing center. The processing center includes a decapper adapted to remove a lid from at least one sample container, an aspirator adapted to remove a specimen from the at least one sample container and transfer the specimen to an output vessel, and a capper adapted to replace the lid on the at least one sample container.